A downloadable game for Windows

C|Type is a typing game where enemies are only one character long. Sounds easy right? Unfortunately for you it's characters not letters. That means anything you can type on a US keyboard is fair game! This game was made for the Game Maker's Toolkit Game Jam 2019. You should check out the other entries here!

The web version has been removed because of symbol input not registering properly.

How to play:

Type the letters you see to destroy enemies
Hit the space bar to activate a bomb—but you only get three!
Rack up a higher combo by not making any typos

Attributions:

Sound:

Sounds effects by NenadSimic, Kenney, David "ViRiX" McKee (https://soundcloud.com/virix), Michel Baradari, and Joth all from opengameart.org under CC0 or CC-BY 3.0. Some sounds may be slightly modified in pitch/duration.
Music by Alexandr Zhelanov (https://soundcloud.com/alexandr-zhelanov) also from opengameart.org under CC-BY 3.0.

Art

Spaceship and bullet sprites by Tatermand at opengameart.org under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Explosions by Sinestesia at opengameart.org under CC0.
Background by Westbeam at opengameart.org under CC0.

More information

Status	Released
Platforms	Windows
Author	Durbo
Genre	Action
Made with	Paint.net, Audacity, Godot
Tags	Shoot 'Em Up, Typing
Code license	MIT License
Asset license	Creative Commons Attribution_ShareAlike v4.0 International
Average session	A few minutes
Languages	English
Inputs	Keyboard

Download

CTYPE.zip 31 MB

Install instructions

Download, unzip, and launch the executable.

Development log

Post-Jam Cleanup
Aug 12, 2019

Comments

vicksonzero5 years ago (1 edit)

Score 1112100

Very feature complete game. Quite fun. Nice graphics.

Can't see how it is trying to exploit the limitations of "Only one".

Given the low difficulty of just pressing a key,

perhaps you can stylize some characters and let the player spend time guessing it?

or perhaps let the player be the enemies and press the button to send a fast ship crashing into a shielded computer player (sitting in the center)?

or make the player use arrow keys to stay away from the (even denser) enemies, and use only one hand to type the character?

Still, really enjoyed the lighting and atmosphere you have created.

Nyzxe5 years ago

Nice idea and execution, but some symbols don't work. ( worked but = didn't.

Durbo5 years ago

Yeah it looks like the web version has some keyboard input issues that are engine specific for web builds. The standalone executable shouldn't have this issue.

Murilo Trigo5 years ago

Love it!

Had a great time within a 5 minte play session.

xriva5 years ago

the symbles dont work atherwise great

Durbo5 years ago (1 edit)

Thanks for the quick feedback. Did some testing on the online version. It seems the curly braces don't pick up in the web version only but other symbols worked fine. I've removed them from spawning in the web version as a result. Was it just curly braces that weren't working for you? Also, does it work fine for you for the executable version?